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La Main du Bouddha
Cinquième siècle de notre ère…Le long de la route de la soie, des bonzes adeptes de la non-violence. Derrière la Grande Muraille, un roitelet chinois sanguinaire, un vieux lettré bossu et omniscient, une princesse amoureuse d’un jeune chrétien, un chef taoïste obnubilé par le sexe, une ancienne prostituée assoiffée de vengeance… Et au bout du compte, dans une Chine disloquée, mais toujours aussi imperméable aux influences étrangères, un événement inouï : la miraculeuse implantation du bouddhisme, la religion venue de l’Inde. Avec cette histoire aux mille rebondissements, José Frèches nous ouvre les portes du mystérieux monastère du Cheveu dirigé par Maître K. Deux jeunes gens en fuite y ont trouvé refuge : Lune Rousse, la fille du roitelet rêvant de devenir empereur, et Nestor, l’héritier d’un évêque chrétien. En suivant leur idylle impossible, c’est à un formidable bouleversement qu’on s’apprête à assister. Et qui marquera la Chine à jamais… Après La Petite Voleuse de la soie, un nouvel épisode de la série palpitante de José Frèches sur les Arcanes de la Chine.
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Published November 10, 2021
About the author
José Frèches
84 books16 followersEducation (school): São Paolo, Rome, Lisbon, Aix-en-Provence, Paris
Education (university): Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Aix-en-Provence,
Degrees in History of Art and Chinese, Masters in History, former pupil of ENA.
Professional career: curator of the Guimet museum at 21 years of age and lecturer at the Ecole du Louvre, José Frèches has held various positions in the communications, audiovisual and culture sectors (setting up the Vidéothèque of Paris and becoming President of Midi Libre)
Today, he is a member of the Artistic Council of the National Museums Group (Réunion des musées nationaux), and among other activities he puts his energy into a Parisian Communications Agency and is also the director of an art and antiques gallery in the Gard.
He initiated in 2005 the International Biennial of Chinese Contemporary Art in Montpellier, an event testifying for the huge development of China and of its culture. His novelistic trilogies, The Legend of the Jade and The Silk Empress (XO, 2002 and 2004) were tremendously successful: they sold more than one million copies and were translated into 11 languages. His biographical novel about Buddha, I Buddha, appealed to the general reader (90.000 copies were sold in France, apart from paperback) and to nine foreign publishers.
His first trilogy The Jade Disk is a story, set during the Warring States Period in disunited China. It tells the story from the character of the rich merchant and eventual prime-minister Lü Buwei - real father of the first emperor of China Qin Shi Huang. It portrays the struggles between the other kingdoms and Kingdom of Qin, destined to unite China.
His second trilogy The Empress of Silk is set in Medieval China during the Tang Dynasty. It depicts the story of Emperor Gaozong, the third emperor of Tang and his prominent and ambitious wife Wu Zetian, who after his death, virtually became the ruler of the country and the first female emperor in the history of China.
His latest series The Empire of Tears is set in mid-19th Century China, during the Opium Wars, where the empire is struggling and slowly decaying.
Education (university): Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Aix-en-Provence,
Degrees in History of Art and Chinese, Masters in History, former pupil of ENA.
Professional career: curator of the Guimet museum at 21 years of age and lecturer at the Ecole du Louvre, José Frèches has held various positions in the communications, audiovisual and culture sectors (setting up the Vidéothèque of Paris and becoming President of Midi Libre)
Today, he is a member of the Artistic Council of the National Museums Group (Réunion des musées nationaux), and among other activities he puts his energy into a Parisian Communications Agency and is also the director of an art and antiques gallery in the Gard.
He initiated in 2005 the International Biennial of Chinese Contemporary Art in Montpellier, an event testifying for the huge development of China and of its culture. His novelistic trilogies, The Legend of the Jade and The Silk Empress (XO, 2002 and 2004) were tremendously successful: they sold more than one million copies and were translated into 11 languages. His biographical novel about Buddha, I Buddha, appealed to the general reader (90.000 copies were sold in France, apart from paperback) and to nine foreign publishers.
His first trilogy The Jade Disk is a story, set during the Warring States Period in disunited China. It tells the story from the character of the rich merchant and eventual prime-minister Lü Buwei - real father of the first emperor of China Qin Shi Huang. It portrays the struggles between the other kingdoms and Kingdom of Qin, destined to unite China.
His second trilogy The Empress of Silk is set in Medieval China during the Tang Dynasty. It depicts the story of Emperor Gaozong, the third emperor of Tang and his prominent and ambitious wife Wu Zetian, who after his death, virtually became the ruler of the country and the first female emperor in the history of China.
His latest series The Empire of Tears is set in mid-19th Century China, during the Opium Wars, where the empire is struggling and slowly decaying.
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February 19, 2024
C'était long mais ça restait intéressant
March 30, 2023
Ma vraiment permis d'en apprendre plus sur le bouddhisme. J'ai adoré chaque personnages mais j'avoue avoir eu un peu du mal avec certaine scène qui selon moi ont étés passées trop rapidement.
February 16, 2025
Espèce de conte mais pas du tout accroché
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